The vermin set up around a hill while I stretch out my line. I got first turn where my shooting was awful killing nothing. Carson returned the favor by shooting 30 shots at my reiters and doing zero wounds to them. (Reiters are becoming Carson's nemesis) The game turned into a battle of missing artillery. Aside from my cannon being killed by his turn two.

An excellent magic phase saw Carson's BSB wiped off the map by double whammy Unerring strikes. My greatswords made a 16 inch charge on his bell unit after his general when for a panicked walk off to the board edge from watching the BSB die a horrific death. My greatswords, unsupported, couldn't put down the bell unit (The bell is turning into my nemesis pretty quickly). My swordmen and halberdiers put up some good fights against rat ogres and the abom but were killed. My solo wizard managed to not only stand up against a rat ogre overrun but managed to stick out the fight for an extra round on one wound!

After a nasty grind my greatswords finally were crushed after dealing the final blow to the screaming bell. My prelate charged the abom and purged it with fire. the battle was bloody but the rats pulled out a good win over the Empire. They will feast on man-meat tonight!Comments:I need to be more patient. I've lost a number of games by my greatswords breaking rank and running in without my wagon train. Makes for a hard battle to win.Terrain was probably my MVP. Carson deployed behind a hill saving himself some good artillery fire on juicy units. However the same hill blocked his cannon from my juicy targets.I'm liking Parent/Support units more and more and shying away from cavalry. Units of 20 halberdiers with a good parent is hard to crack.

Nice work Carson! Good battle report Dwayne. Sounds like a bloody back and forth game. I'm free tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon or evening and Tuesday evening if one of those works for you Carson. Sounds like my elves will have their hands full.

I thought I was done when your greatswords made that long charge with box cars. I did make a lot of ward saves to keep the bell around until my support came in. I got lucky with the dice when it counted!

I made a mistake with the slaves leadership Dwayne, they are 2 not four so I would have lost that unit of slaves that killed the arcane engine.....not sure if that would make the difference in points!

I will concede the game to you because of my fuck up.

_________________What is best in life?Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of thier women.

Carson and I played our game Tonight. We played a battle line with a capture the flag secondary (which we promptly forgot about). We both loaded up on one side of the table. I advanced quickly across the board while his abomination sprinted toward my spear elves. I ended up charging the abomb with my spears and bsb. It took 3 rounds for my spears to chew through the giant rat-beast by which time a unit of rat ogres had queued-up to charge them in Carson's 3rd turn. Elsewhere, everyone in my army charged. My swordmasters and silver helms charged some slaves, my knights of rhyma charged his bell and my lord and Phoenix charged his stormvernin. The knights put 3 wounds on the bellwhich held, the lord and Phoenix won combat but the stormvernin stuck around. The slaves lost half their unit but with 20 left they had just enough to be steadfast.

The next turn things went sour for Carson. My Lord picked off his general causing his stormvermin to flee. My spears held against his rat ogres and worst of all his grey seer miscast and rolled a 15 which put 3 wounds on his caster with no saves allowed. That was enough to kill the bell. My swordmasters and silver helms finished off the slaves. In my turn everything charged again. The silverhelms helped the spears put some hurt on the rat ogres, causing them to flee and then running them down. My Phoenix charged his cannon, took it down to its last wound and then a lucky rat snuck a wound through, killing the bird. My general killed the remaining clan rats and my swordmasters continued bashing his bsb in a pretty even fight. The game ended with carson extending his hand with his bsb with 1 wound left, his single remaining shooty rat ogre with one wound, his cannon with 1 wound and his ambushers being his only unit remaining intact. I had my spears, bsb, my swordmasters and my general.